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Contributors | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Metabole Politeion as Universal Historiography | p. 15 |
Polybius and the First Universal History | p. 30 |
Diodorus' Reading of Polybius' Universalism | p. 41 |
Diodorus' Good Statesman and State Revenue | p. 56 |
Strabo and the Development of Ancient Greek Universal Historiography | p. 71 |
The Glory of Italy and Rome's Universal Destiny in Strabo's Geographika | p. 87 |
Universal History and the Early Roman Historians | p. 102 |
Universal and Particular in Velleius Paterculus: Carthage versus Rome | p. 116 |
Focalised Universality: Contextualising the Genre | p. 131 |
Ennius as Universal Historian: the Case of the Annales | p. 148 |
Theology versus Genre? The Universalism of Christian Historiography in Late Antiquity | p. 162 |
Orosius and Escaping from the Dance of Doom | p. 176 |
A Rose in the Desert? Late Antique and Early Byzantine Chronicles and the Formation of Islamic Universal Historiography | p. 189 |
Universal Historiography and World History according to Hegel | p. 207 |
Spengler, the Modern West, and Roman Decline | p. 221 |
Index | p. 239 |
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